Hand-stamp.



H. S. FOLGER.

HAND STAMP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3. 1913.

' 1,142,560, PatentedJuhe 8,1915.

- HARRY S. FOLGER, 0F CHIC-AGO, ILLINQIS.

HAND-STAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed Novemher 3.191s. Serial No. 798,835.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, HARRY S. FoLeER, citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

My-invention relates to hand stamps and has for itsobject improvements in devices of that character.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of the stamp; Fig.

2 is a side elevation partially cut away to 7 show the manner of forming the card holder; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the upper part of the card holder and the stamp body; and Fig. 4 is a perspective viewof the lower part of the card holder and the stamp body.

In thesaid drawings the body part is composed of two metal plates 10 and 11 'bent into required form and inserted one into the other. The metal plates are secured to the handle 12- by means of a screw 13. The metal plate 10 has three edges bent downward to form three sides of the box which contains the cushion 14. The portion 15 of the metal plate 10 is longer than the downwardly bent parts and is bent in a reverse direction. The upper edge of the part 15 15 and its downwardly projecting lip form the upper part of a card holder for containing a card bearing an inscription thereon.

The metal plate 11 which. lies within and below the plate 10,- hasone side bent down-= ward and has a lip 17 which is turned up to form the lower groove of the card holder. Each of the metal plates 10 and 11 has a square hole 18 cut therein through which the screw 13 passes. squared at 19 so as to fit the holes in the metal plates 10 and 11. When so construct ed the plates and As thus inserted, upon which the handle is screwed as a nut to clamp the plates 10 and 11 to each other. It will be observed that by makingthei" metal portion of the stamp in two parts, se-

The screw 13 has its neck "through the two plates, "form of a stamp handle, 1 nut serving secure-the the handle are prevented from turning with respect to each other.

he screw 13 forms a stud cured together by the handle and its screw, I am enabled to make two holders by the simple bending of flat plates. One of these holders is the box in which is contained the cushion 14, and the other of which is adapt-- ed to receive the card that indicates what the stamp is. It will also be observed that by placing one part 11 within the other part 10 so that the two are guided with respect to each other, I obtain a double thickness of metal at that part of the stamp under the handle which is subjected to the greatest strain when the stampgis-used. By this means I am enabled to use comparatively thin metal, thereby saving in both weight and material, and also saving in work necessary to perform the bending operations. I

\Vhat I claim is 1. In a hand stamp, a stamp holder formed of two plates each of which engages a different portion of the stamp, one of said plates having a holding portion thereof bent to form the lower groove of a card-holding channel, and the other of said plates having an upwardly extending flange furnishing the upper groove of the card holding channel.

2. In a hand stamp, a handle, ametal plate bent to form three sides of a stamp box and part of a card holder, a second plate bent to form the remainder of the box and to form the top, one side and two ends ofa cushion holding box and having a portion at the opposite side bent upward 'to-form part bf a card holder, a second metalplate located within the first plate and'having a portion bent to close the open side of the first plate and also to furnish the remaining part of the card holder, a screw passing and a nut in the the screw and'the two plates together.

box and having the portion adjacent to the hand stamp, a plate'bent to form A three sides and the top of a cushion'holding 5 l l l l l l Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of October 1913.

HARRY S. FOLGER. \Vitnesses:

CASPER L. REDFIELD, WALTER H. REDFIELD. 

